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Miriam McDonald spends time along with her 4-year-old son, Nico. McDonald struggled to get look after postpartum despair at Kaiser Permanente, an expertise that may ultimately result in important coverage modifications by the well being care supplier.
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North Philadelphia resident Katherine Camacho expressed curiosity in turning into a “trusted messenger” with the opioid disaster outreach group when a canvasser approached her at her house.
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Tim Lillard on the house he and his late spouse, Ann Picha-Lillard, shared in suburban southeast Michigan. Since her demise in 2022, Lillard has made it his mission to go the Protected Affected person Care Act, which might create necessary nurse-to-patient ratios in Michigan hospitals.
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After his spouse died, he joined nurses to push for brand spanking new staffing guidelines in hospitals
As a part of his pediatric apply, Dr. Safdar Medina treats opioid use dysfunction. Throughout a latest appointment at a clinic in Uxbridge, Mass., Medina switched a teenage affected person’s buprenorphine prescription to an injectable kind and checked in about his faculty and social life.
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Extra youngsters are dying of drug overdoses. Might pediatricians do extra to assist?
Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf demonstrates one of many distraction methods he makes use of for youngsters receiving photographs at UCSF Benioff Kids’s Hospital in San Francisco on Dec. 18.
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Pictures will be scary and painful for youths. One physician has a plan to finish needle phobia
Jorge Rubiano outdoors a brief migrant shelter the place he stayed after arriving in Chicago final summer time from Colombia.
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For Chicago’s new migrants, casual help teams assist ease the ache and trauma
Joslyn Herrera helps purchasers fighting habit discover companies on the Santa Fe Restoration Heart. Herrera spent her teenage years fighting opioid habit, and says her many stints in juvenile detention did nothing to assist her restoration.
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Well being advocates criticize New Mexico governor for growing juvenile detention
Yearly, an estimated 100,000 younger adults or adolescents within the U.S. expertise a psychotic episode. Solely 10-20% of them acquire entry to the holistic remedy method advisable by the Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being because the gold commonplace of look after early psychosis, on account of lack of area or as a result of insurance coverage will not cowl it.
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It retains folks with schizophrenia at school and on the job. Why will not insurance coverage pay?
Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider (proper) interviews comic Tig Notaro about drawing humor from her breast most cancers analysis. Ungerleider is the founding father of Finish Nicely, a nonprofit centered on shifting the American dialog round demise. Their dialogue befell in November at Finish Nicely’s 2023 convention held in Los Angeles.
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Docs are pushing Hollywood for extra reasonable depictions of demise and dying on TV
Unionized staff picket outdoors the Windfall Neighborhood Well being Facilities on Oct. 12, 2023.
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Extra sufferers are shedding their docs – and their belief within the main care system
Graduate scholar researcher Jacquelynn Mornay, with the LSU College of Public Well being, reveals a noise studying taken beneath the Claiborne Expressway on July 18, 2023, in New Orleans. The decibel ranges are much like that of a bike engine and will trigger everlasting listening to harm after extended publicity.
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A New Orleans neighborhood confronts the racist legacy of a poisonous stretch of freeway
Esther Lau testifies on June 20 earlier than the California Senate Judiciary Committee in help of Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo’s invoice permitting teenagers with Medi-Cal protection to hunt remedy with out parental approval.
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California expands insurance coverage entry for teenagers searching for remedy on their very own
Karli (left) and Elmo (proper) seem in Season 51 of Sesame Road. In separate movies and tales accessible at no cost on-line, Karli, Elmo and supportive grownup characters focus on how Karli’s mom is in restoration for an unspecified habit.
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Muppets from Sesame Workshop assist clarify opioid habit to younger kids
Intermountain Residential in Helena, Montana, is one a handful of applications within the U.S. offering long-term behavioral well being remedy for youths youthful than 10. Directors just lately introduced that staffing shortages are forcing them to downsize from 32 beds to eight, and the power might need to shut totally.
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For youths in disaster, it is getting tougher to search out long-term residential remedy
A social employee prepares to roll out with an officer at Denver Police District 5 on December 21, 2017. Denver has been a mannequin for different cities, together with Philadelphia, attempting to create new methods to answer emergency calls involving psychological sicknesses or drug addictions.
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Cities understand how police reply to psychological disaster calls wants to alter. However how?
A #RestoreRoe rally outdoors Michigan’s capitol in Lansing in Sept. 2022. Voters overwhelmingly authorised enshrining abortion rights within the state structure later that 12 months.
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In Michigan, #RestoreRoe abortion rights motion hits its restrict within the legislature
Emily Bendt cradles her two-week-old toddler, Willow, at her house close to Portland, OR in early October 2023. Bendt, a pediatric nurse, carefully adopted the latest approval of the RSV monoclonal antibody Nirsevimab however has been unable to search out it for her daughter.
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A brand new RSV shot might assist shield infants this winter — if they will get it in time
A pediatric dosage of the brand new Moderna COVID vaccine, after a long-awaited cargo lastly arrived on the workplace of Southern Orange County Pediatric Associates. The date the vaccine arrived, Oct. 11, is marked on the field.
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As winter nears, some mother and father are nonetheless trying to find the brand new pediatric COVID shot
At a signing ceremony in April, Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, formally repealed the state’s 1931 abortion ban. The outdated statute was unenforceable after voters enshrined abortion rights within the state structure final November. Now Whitmer is backing extra payments to repeal abortion laws involving paperwork and cost, however one Democratic lawmaker might jeopardize the vote.
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Michigan Democrats need to ease entry to abortion. However one Democrat is saying no
An unidentified girl lies beneath a blanket in a cell within the Flathead County Detention Heart in Kalispell, Montana. She has been held there for practically a 12 months after being discovered mentally unfit to face trial on housebreaking fees, in keeping with a jail official.
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Montana inmates with psychological sickness languish in jail awaiting remedy earlier than trial
Peacemakers have a debrief earlier than concluding their work for the day on the Lincoln Fields flats advanced in Miami, Fla. Lamont Nanton (second from left) is the group’s supervisor and Shameka Pierce (third from left) works with the group.
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To stop gun violence, these peacemakers begin with the fundamentals
Medical assistant Lakeisha Pratt (left,) and receptionist David Bowers put together for a busy day at North Facet Christian Well being Heart, a safety-net well being middle in Pittsburgh. Even a brief authorities shutdown might disrupt funding and power the clinic to chop again.
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Federal shutdown might disrupt affected person care at safety-net clinics throughout U.S.
